I just bought ASUS UX42VS and I am have troubles installing ubuntu 12.10. After booting from USB or CD, whatever I select in the grub menu, the screen goes black and the computer does nothing. I have already tried to edit grub settings with nospalsh noguiet nomodeset but it did not help. Can you please help?

Thank you for your answer but the scope of my problems is even larger. You see I can't even get ubuntu live CD started. So the advice to log as far into ubuntu as I can is useless for me... The computer is completely new so I have only win 8 installed. I do the following: 1. boot from installation media 2. select try ubuntu without installing or install ubuntu 3. edit the option by pressing e and change it to nosplash noquiet nomodeset 4. pressing f10 5. and the screen goes immediately black a the computer halts and does absolutely nothing. Please help! I hate windows and win 8 even more! Thx
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nodashiDec 4 '12 at 8:49